Dave's Garden in our local paper

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HollyAnnS Dover, PA(Zone 6b) Jan 20, 2010

We have a weekly feature Over the Garden Fence in our newspaper.
George Weigel the local garden guru writes several articles and posts a calendar of upcoming gardening events each week.
Last week the article was
Buying at garden centers is nice, but Web is fun too.

Here are a few excerpts from his column
If you decide to go the online/mail-order route, here's a tip -- make Dave's Garden (www.davesgarden.com) your first stop.
This site is the nation's largest interactive community of gardeners where millions trade plant information and share advice
For shoppers, the sites Garden Watchdog feature are an invaluable aid.
Since 1994, Dave's Garden visitors have been rating seed, plant and garden-product vendors -- more than 52,000 ratings on nearly 3,700 companies
Garden Watchdog helps by breaking out a Watchdog 30 of vendors that score nearly perfect reviews.
Dave's Garden has PlantFiles on 179,000 plants with growing information and pictures -- as well as home-gardener comments on each plant and lists of areas around the country where each plant has been grown successfully.
And this amazingly useful site even has a PlantScout feature that lets you search for vendors selling the plants, seeds or products you're looking for.
If you would like to read the entire article here is a link to the papers on line site. http://www.pennlive.com/columns/patriotnews/weigel/index.ssf?/base/columnists/126331440528620.xml&coll=1

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Joan Belfield, ND(Zone 4a) Jan 20, 2010

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

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